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Introduction to Psychology Week 3 Forum

Introduction to Psychology Week 3 Forum

Q What kind of implications do particular limitations of human memory have on the use of eye-witness testimony in criminal and civil court cases?

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Experiment by Elizabeth Loftus has proved the fact that the memory of Human Beings is not perfect as they are recalled for several times. The human being’s mind and the memory can be distorted and it does not present the information as the events occurred or the way people behaved, when the things are again brought into attention through recall. Often, when the information is brought into consciousness, it had gaps in between and the information is thus pulled out from some of the early matching memories, and the gaps are filled up.